Matt D

Who is this person? Someone who says IWC and thinks everyone is being buried except Roman Reigns? Beats me. I just follow Benjamin Wittes, Walter Shaub, and Natasha Bertrand on twitter, no wrestling people.

I can't understate how great the crowd is for Piper vs Valentine.

And, our eternal corollary, what else might have?

It all goes back to people (fans) feeling like they can be a part of something. They can be part of what feels like a smaller more in-the-know "elite" group if they walk around wearing a Prichard shirt. It makes them feel better than the common fan and gives them something to identify with.

If they release this much stuff every week, it'll be nuts. I'm believing this thing will peter out within a few weeks because history hasn't told me to believe otherwise. It's possible that they have a month or two of this queued though.

If someone gets the trademark to Wrestleyear now...

I'm sure you'll feel better when a tall, awkward goon breaks it up to set up a different match with Bryan.

I think a lot of that was his opponent. It's interesting. One of my favorite things about 2018 Bryan is how he channels the YES in the matches themselves. With the Rusev match, it was through sort of a writhing but rhythmic body sell. Here (before the kicks) it was his hands and it didn't really catch on as much as I thought it might.

I enjoy first act Daniel Bryan acting like arm-wringer Stan Hansen, whereas Jeff tried to reverse the hold with normal sorts of babyface arm-pulling and Bryan just ate him alive and forced him to do other things to get any offense. Bryan comes off as such a methodological machine on offense now, a real force. Anyone who was worried about him just coming off like another guy due to the booking isn't actually watching the matches. It might just be me, but I'm still hyper-sensitive to every bump in a Bryan match, not even just his. Something like the way Hardy took the feet through the ropes was nasty. Then you see something like the knee-block of the Swanton and wonder just how they manage that without breaking each other. I thought the top rope teases to set up the whisper in the wind were very strong. Just good building block spot creation where everything had an air of danger, made sense, and led right into the prestige spot. I really liked the twist-of-fate stunner and think Hardy should have been using that fifteen years ago as his watered-down variation to set up the Swanton, but his lack of "stuff" after the dodged knee was pretty evident. I wasn't feeling his Ricky Morton roll-ups in the finishing stretch when it's obvious Bryan had so much more in the tank. Again, maybe it's not the best guy to do it against, but establishing a new finishing weapon, just like that, for Bryan is going to make all of his matches even MORE interesting moving forward. Every 2018 Bryan match we get is a gift and a joy.

I was mainly noting what the problem was vs developmental a few years back. It's pretty much the only thing Meltzer could have been referring to, especially since the NXT house style has shifted so much since then. We just had Almas vs Gargano a couple of months ago. I think Rollins is generally fine now if he's working a base, though he has a few aggravating spots (but most people do). He's somewhat less fine if he's working someone who's more apt to bring out his worst tendencies. I think he could have a really good match with a guy like Braun right now.

So far as I can remember, the big issue in development is that Terry Taylor wanted him to rein things in and do less and go slower and try to tell more of a story and Rollins wanted to do the things that Ziggler's been forever held back for (as he defies the office to wrestle how he wants): hit as much stuff as possible (and bump as much as possible) with as much energy as possible. This was back in one of the documentaries, Breaking Ground or the SHIELD one from a few years ago or something. Now he wants to burn things down.

What is that exactly? See above.

Sell and do shit with resonance instead of just getting your stuff in and popping the crowd?

From what I've heard, he's very similar with Fuller, and you and I share the same opinion on 6:05, so that came as a surprise.

Nothing matters anymore.

It's 2018. Break the chains of immediacy. Watch things on your terms.

Did they put a wig on Goldberg?

Maybe he'll finally start a rasslin' company.

Eh. He just lucked into an environment which was impossibly advantageous? That he couldn't get more during the last round of negotiations was embarrassing. This is a massive success but he didn't create the situation. He just kept a steady ship that could benefit from it.

Week 20. We finally slipped one. Ok, having Ippon dropkick and oldbirds go again since they didn't last week. Giving Joe another shot in the random roll. Tim is out for now. SmartMark15 SirEdger JoeG HeadCheese Grimmas Matt D jetlag DR Ackerman Nintendo Logic fxnj Victator dawho5 IpponDropkick oldbirds Steven, dataintcash posted this 3 weeks ago. It has the best transition ever. I think you'll like it.

This is certainly good news.

Why bother doing Friday house shows anymore?

It can become a procedural with no meanungful week to week connectivity.

Well, things are never boring.

From the outside (and I mean FAR outside) looking in, I think it comes down to Sofia, right? That's the only thing that's changed between now and a few years ago. There have been these weird little hints of things shifting one way or another over the last two years, but in the end, CMLL remains CMLL. So we'll see. Either Park does something to get himself kicked out in a few weeks or he does something and DOESN'T get kicked out. That's how we'll know.